MU Peeves Thread

Pyrephox

Venus flytraps originated in the Carolina swamps

Imagine what it had to be like there to evolve into something so deprived of useful nutrients that you were like “fuck it, I eat mosquitoes now”

At least you know you’ll never run out of mosquitos here. The only food source that would be more consistently plentiful is roaches.

tsar

@bear_necessities said in MU Peeves Thread:

@Pyrephox and @Snackness you guys only think you’re superior because you have water. Psssh who needs that to live?!

At least we can find our way to the ocean

KarmaBum

@tsar EXCUSE ME but I was at the ocean with @bear_necessities 2 days ago and she did great!!! Just don’t ask her where she left her flip flops

or for water at Target

(these jokes are so inside, sry. this convo was getting hot in a dumb way over dumb shit)

tsar

@KarmaBum said in MU Peeves Thread:

@tsar EXCUSE ME but I was at the ocean with @bear_necessities 2 days ago and she did great!!! Just don’t ask her where she left her flip flops

or for water at Target

(these jokes are so inside, sry. this convo was getting hot in a dumb way over dumb shit)

Okay but did you use my map to get there

KarmaBum

@tsar I mean duh,of course we did. do you think we just guided ourselves by the stars or something???

Snackness

@KarmaBum You couldn’t have if you actually made it to an ocean.

Selira

I live near an active volcano, which in terms of natural disasters is still the coolest way to die. How many of you spent hours on hours reading about Pompeii? West coast clearly best coast.

I’m pretty glad to see I’m not alone in my reasons for not liking asynch, though.

helvetica

Meanwhile, I just live where we have to routinely grease all of the streetlamps to stop everyone from climbing up them.

junipersky

All you people are wrong. Live in the foothills of Colorado. If you ignore the constant wildfires it is easily the safest.

Tez

@helvetica said in MU Peeves Thread:

Meanwhile, I just live where we have to routinely grease all of the streetlamps to stop everyone from climbing up them.

You are the natural disaster.

helvetica

@Tez bad kermit

junipersky

@helvetica

What I thought was best is that the greasing didn’t work. That is freaking DEDICATION.

Testament

@tsar said in MU Peeves Thread:

I’m frustrated sometimes by it feeling like it’s being implied I don’t do enough to facilitate the hobby for people in other timezones.

But then I try to remember it’s not really about me personally.

I think about this a lot as well. As I said before, when I started to do more, run more events, build more lore, and just generally being more available for players, I actually got pushback from various people that I was doing too much and that it was getting too busy.

It was then that I realized while I intended on creating a game that moved slower with the goal to eventually have something that sustained itself with it’s playerbase, that wasn’t likely to happen soon as plenty of people have stated that they like how things move at a snail’s pace. I admit, I was not expecting that, but I also don’t have a huge problem with. Then again, I want to also create something that caters to more folks, giving them a chance to enjoy things too.

It is a weird, difficult balance to try and maintain. Speaking for myself, I’ve only had middling success. If I could have things less async, I would, but perhaps not until later.

Pavel

looking up from newspaper

My thanks to all the cooler heads in here.

tsar

@Testament said in MU Peeves Thread:

@tsar said in MU Peeves Thread:

I’m frustrated sometimes by it feeling like it’s being implied I don’t do enough to facilitate the hobby for people in other timezones.

But then I try to remember it’s not really about me personally.

I think about this a lot as well. As I said before, when I started to do more, run more events, build more lore, and just generally being more available for players, I actually got pushback from various people that I was doing too much and that it was getting too busy.

It was then that I realized while I intended on creating a game that moved slower with the goal to eventually have something that sustained itself with it’s playerbase, that wasn’t likely to happen soon as plenty of people have stated that they like how things move at a snail’s pace. I admit, I was not expecting that, but I also don’t have a huge problem with. Then again, I want to also create something that caters to more folks, giving them a chance to enjoy things too.

It is a weird, difficult balance to try and maintain. Speaking for myself, I’ve only had middling success. If I could have things less async, I would, but perhaps not until later.

How fast or how slow a game runs isn’t an indicator of quality one way or another, on its own. I think my question(s) to you, as the gamerunner, is this:

Is this the game you want?

Are you having fun?

Roadspike

@bear_necessities said in MU Peeves Thread:

If you’re on west coast best coast you can be part of the PST gang! We are the most elite and the most ~~right~~ left.

Fixed that for you, fellow Pacifican.

Roz

@helvetica said in MU Peeves Thread:

Meanwhile, I just live where we have to routinely grease all of the streetlamps to stop everyone from climbing up them.

I assume this is done by your minions to give your victims fewer places to run.

Testament

@tsar I’d say yes to both of those things, and I feel like the players would say the same, especially when I have asked for feedback. My creativity means nothing in a vacuum if there’s no one to talk to about it.

I realize that speed of things is not a large indicator on the success or failure of a game, but it is something I consider a good amount. As much as I may enjoy myself, I still live with paranoia of not doing enough or that someone’s needs are not being met.

tsar

@Testament said in MU Peeves Thread:

@tsar I’d say yes to both of those things, and I feel like the players would say the same, especially when I have asked for feedback. My creativity means nothing in a vacuum if there’s no one to talk to about it.

I realize that speed of things is not a large indicator on the success or failure of a game, but it is something I consider a good amount. As much as I may enjoy myself, I still live with paranoia of not doing enough or that someone’s needs are not being met.

Yeah, I totally get that. I think there’s probably a healthy medium between breakneck and snail’s pace, but that’s entirely dependent on the comfort of you and your players.

Just repeatedly editing my posts today. Naps are needed.

Coin

Yeah, well, I live in Argentina, where inflation, recession, and political upheaval are our natural disasters.